1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,960 Let's turn our Bibles to the word of God. 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,880 We're turning this morning to the Psalm 60. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:13,280 I'm going to read all 12 verses. Psalm 60. 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,560 Let's hear the word of God. We're reading, of course, from 5 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,840 the Authorised version, most faithful and reliable 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,560 translation of the Holy Scriptures. 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,120 Translation that saw revival in our land. 8 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,440 The words that come up on the screen for all who are online 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:48,120 this morning. Psalm 60, Let's hear the word of 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:57,360 God reading from verse one. Oh God, thou has cast us off. 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,360 Thou hast scattered us. Thou hast been displeased. 12 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,640 O. Turn thyself to us again, That 13 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,280 was made the earth to tremble. Thou hast broken it. 14 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,320 Heal the. Breeches thereof, for it Shaketh 15 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,040 that has showed thy people hard things. 16 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,120 That was made us. To drink the wine. 17 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,570 Of astonishment. That was given a banner to them 18 00:01:29,570 --> 00:01:30,570 that. Fear thee. 19 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:33,890 That it may be displayed because of thy truth. 20 00:01:34,370 --> 00:01:38,250 Cedar that thy beloved may be delivered. 21 00:01:39,090 --> 00:01:41,530 See if with thy right hand, and hear me. 22 00:01:42,770 --> 00:01:46,490 God has spoken in His Holiness. I will rejoice. 23 00:01:47,010 --> 00:01:50,490 I will divide Sheckem and meet. Out the valley of Sucketh, 24 00:01:51,410 --> 00:01:55,650 Gilead is mine and the NASA is mine. 25 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,880 Eve Frame also was the strength of mine. 26 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:06,320 Head Judah is my law giver. Moab is my wash pot over Eden 27 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,639 will I cast out my shoe? Felicitia triumph though, 28 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:14,840 because of me. Who will bring me into the. 29 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,840 Strong city. Who will lead me into Eden? 30 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,040 Wilt not thou? O God, Which? 31 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,330 Has cast us off. And thou, O God. 32 00:02:26,330 --> 00:02:29,370 Which didst not. Go out with our armies. 33 00:02:30,450 --> 00:02:33,850 Give us help from trouble for. V and is the. 34 00:02:33,890 --> 00:02:37,370 Help of man. Through God we shall do 35 00:02:37,410 --> 00:02:41,050 valiantly. For he it is that shall tread 36 00:02:41,050 --> 00:02:43,730 down our enemies. Amen. 37 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:45,290 We know the. Lord will stamped with his own 38 00:02:45,290 --> 00:02:48,970 approval and blessing this reading of his own precious and 39 00:02:48,970 --> 00:02:52,490 infallible word amongst us today. 40 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:00,080 Now this morning my text is taken from Psalm 60 verse. 41 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:06,000 One and have entitled a subject, a prayer to God, to see of 42 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,360 Ulster, now the majority. Of us, if not all. 43 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,840 Listening to me preached. The word of. 44 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:18,400 God today would agree that this we province of Northern Ireland, 45 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,400 this we please we call home or the province of Ulster. 46 00:03:22,980 --> 00:03:27,620 It's in terrible bad shape. It's in bad shape politically. 47 00:03:28,420 --> 00:03:32,940 It's in bad shape culturally and economically and morally and 48 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:36,940 religiously and spiritually. Now I have a question for. 49 00:03:36,940 --> 00:03:41,260 Us And it's this. What is the answer to ulsters 50 00:03:41,260 --> 00:03:43,820 woes and troubles? At this time. 51 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:47,660 Let me tell you what the answer's not. 52 00:03:48,370 --> 00:03:53,970 The answer's not in politics, not in any political party. 53 00:03:56,170 --> 00:04:01,050 Ulster's answer is not in an economic revival and the removal 54 00:04:01,050 --> 00:04:04,890 of the Irish Sea border that so wickedly has been imposed upon 55 00:04:04,890 --> 00:04:08,010 us by the British government at the behest of the Irish 56 00:04:08,010 --> 00:04:10,450 government and the European. Union. 57 00:04:10,820 --> 00:04:14,020 In the pretext of getting breakfast done, it has done 58 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:18,180 damage to us economically and constitutionally. 59 00:04:21,459 --> 00:04:25,980 I want to tell you the answer is not us trying to be morally good 60 00:04:25,980 --> 00:04:28,500 and deal with all the moral ills of the day. 61 00:04:28,580 --> 00:04:32,340 That's a part of the answer, but that's not the right and real. 62 00:04:32,380 --> 00:04:34,780 Answer. I want to tell you even the 63 00:04:34,780 --> 00:04:39,620 prayer Revive us. You know, the answer is not even 64 00:04:39,620 --> 00:04:43,060 in a religious revival. We we all want the House of God 65 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:46,700 filled again on the day of God. We want people to come in their 66 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:50,660 hundreds and thousands to worship the living and the true 67 00:04:50,660 --> 00:04:53,180 God. Now that's a component. 68 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:56,660 Part of the answer. But that's not the real and the 69 00:04:56,660 --> 00:05:00,420 right answer. The right answer is not even of 70 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:02,380 all the professing people of God. 71 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,440 We're motivated by the spirit of God. 72 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,480 I'm thinking of the Church of the first born. 73 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,600 If if they all got right with God and sin was put away and 74 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,360 they were really and truly loving the Lord with all their 75 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,880 hearts, soul, mind and strength and loving their neighbours, 76 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,280 their self, that's an important aspect of life here in Northern 77 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:25,360 Ireland. That's a component. 78 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,390 Part of the answer. But not the right and real 79 00:05:28,390 --> 00:05:30,350 answer. So what is the right and real 80 00:05:30,390 --> 00:05:33,870 answer this morning for Northern Ireland's woes and Troubles? 81 00:05:33,990 --> 00:05:36,830 If you look at Psalm 60 verse. One you've got the. 82 00:05:36,870 --> 00:05:40,510 Answer and Psalm 60 verse one. What do we read? 83 00:05:41,070 --> 00:05:44,270 Look at Psalm 60 verse one. Let's read it together. 84 00:05:44,790 --> 00:05:50,550 It says this Psalm 60 verse one. Oh God, thou has cast us off. 85 00:05:50,990 --> 00:05:53,990 Thou was scattered. Thou was being displeased. 86 00:05:54,150 --> 00:05:57,470 Oh, turn thyself to us. Again. 87 00:05:57,510 --> 00:06:00,310 Do you see those words who turn thyself to us again? 88 00:06:01,830 --> 00:06:05,630 That's the answer to Ulster's woes and troubles. 89 00:06:06,310 --> 00:06:09,150 Here's a prayer to. God to save. 90 00:06:09,150 --> 00:06:13,230 Ulster, you see, the Samus is addressing God in prayer. 91 00:06:13,890 --> 00:06:17,930 He is facing up to the real and root problems in the land of 92 00:06:17,930 --> 00:06:21,010 Israel. And he says, oh God, thou has 93 00:06:21,010 --> 00:06:24,290 cast it off. Thou has scattered us. 94 00:06:24,410 --> 00:06:30,650 Thou has been sore, displeased. Oh, turn thyself to us again. 95 00:06:30,810 --> 00:06:35,050 Is not a powerful prayer, is not a persistent prayer. 96 00:06:35,570 --> 00:06:39,610 Is that not a a practical prayer dealing with the woes and 97 00:06:39,610 --> 00:06:42,290 troubles that he's facing? See the word. 98 00:06:42,290 --> 00:06:48,650 TURN is used 400 and. 594 times in the authorised version. 55 of 99 00:06:48,650 --> 00:06:50,610 them are in the book of. Psalms. 100 00:06:51,450 --> 00:06:55,690 And look at it. Oh, turn thyself to us again. 101 00:06:56,090 --> 00:07:02,050 It's not turn us. It's not about us turning to the 102 00:07:02,050 --> 00:07:04,370 Lord. It's not even about the Lord 103 00:07:04,370 --> 00:07:08,010 coming to our hardened, backsliding hearts and and 104 00:07:08,170 --> 00:07:11,530 motivating us to turn to Him. That's important. 105 00:07:13,220 --> 00:07:17,460 That indeed is needed. A backslidden people turning to 106 00:07:17,460 --> 00:07:21,220 him and repentance and faith. But but this, this prayer's much 107 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:24,260 more than that. Oh turn. 108 00:07:25,740 --> 00:07:32,340 Notice the next word, thyself. You see God as pictured as being 109 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:36,850 at a distance from his people. It's as if God has withdrawn 110 00:07:36,850 --> 00:07:39,530 himself. It's as if He's withholding his 111 00:07:39,530 --> 00:07:44,770 presence and power and and and provision and protection from of 112 00:07:44,770 --> 00:07:49,930 his people. We need the the Lord to turn. 113 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:55,450 Again, to us, that's what the Samist had in mind. 114 00:07:55,930 --> 00:07:59,130 And that's a prayer that's often found in the. 115 00:07:59,130 --> 00:08:04,650 Lips of the Samist. He prayed, Turn thee unto me, 116 00:08:05,090 --> 00:08:10,210 and of mercy. Upon me and Sam. 25 and verse 117 00:08:10,210 --> 00:08:14,050 16. He prayed in Sam 69 and in the 118 00:08:14,050 --> 00:08:17,010 verse 16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving 119 00:08:17,010 --> 00:08:19,410 kindness is good. Turn unto me according to the 120 00:08:19,410 --> 00:08:20,890 multitude. Of thy. 121 00:08:21,290 --> 00:08:27,770 Tender mercies Here's a. Prayer that was often. 122 00:08:27,810 --> 00:08:32,770 On his lips. It was not just turn us and he 123 00:08:32,770 --> 00:08:36,049 prayed that three. Times in Sam 80 Sam 80 verse 3, 124 00:08:36,049 --> 00:08:40,850 Sam 80 verse 7 Sam 80. Verse 19 turn. 125 00:08:41,130 --> 00:08:46,330 Us but it. Wasn't just turn us, it was. 126 00:08:46,450 --> 00:08:51,530 Turn thyself to us again and then any. 127 00:08:51,530 --> 00:08:53,330 Prayer that you want to offer for the. 128 00:08:53,330 --> 00:08:57,010 Church of the First Born, Any prayer for the country. 129 00:08:57,090 --> 00:09:01,540 In Northern Ireland. Ears of prayer to prayer, a 130 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:08,780 prayer to God to save Ulster. Oh, turn. 131 00:09:08,780 --> 00:09:15,500 Thyself to us again now three things that came to me in 132 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:19,660 relation to this sound. One, David, is facing the 133 00:09:19,660 --> 00:09:23,020 reality of coming change. Look at the words. 134 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:27,700 That was cast as off, that was scattered us, that was being 135 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,530 displeased. Very important picture emerging 136 00:09:31,530 --> 00:09:34,250 here. Now let's think of the context 137 00:09:35,170 --> 00:09:37,570 cause that's. Very important in Psalm 60 138 00:09:38,250 --> 00:09:41,090 Psalm. 60 You know was written after the defeat. 139 00:09:41,090 --> 00:09:44,210 Of the Syrians. And the Edomite armies. 140 00:09:45,010 --> 00:09:48,210 And that battle took place in the Valley of Salts. 141 00:09:48,690 --> 00:09:52,410 So this is a Psalm of victory. This is a Psalm of pre, is a 142 00:09:52,410 --> 00:09:55,410 Psalm of celebration, a Psalm of rejoicing. 143 00:09:56,130 --> 00:10:00,210 How do I know that? Even though that's not the 144 00:10:00,210 --> 00:10:05,050 picture in verse one, you see David is facing the reality of 145 00:10:05,050 --> 00:10:06,490 coming change. Look at the title. 146 00:10:07,210 --> 00:10:10,890 The title of the sound to. The chief musician upon Shushan, 147 00:10:10,930 --> 00:10:14,690 Edith Mick Tam of. David to teach when he strove 148 00:10:14,690 --> 00:10:19,970 with. Aram Nahar Ain and with Amram 149 00:10:19,970 --> 00:10:24,130 Zoba when Joab returned and Smote of Edum in the valley of 150 00:10:24,130 --> 00:10:28,980 salt 12,000. Now you see this title. 151 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:33,700 I believe this is an inspired title, and in the Hebrew Bible 152 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,140 the title actually forms the first verse. 153 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:40,300 Of the Sam. Think of this specific purpose. 154 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:43,740 Notice the words here to the chief musician. 155 00:10:43,780 --> 00:10:49,140 Upon Shushan Edith Mektam of. David to teach the word mektam 156 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,380 means golden. Here's a a precious. 157 00:10:53,380 --> 00:10:56,750 Truth. Like, like a golden nugget. 158 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:59,710 Something that's to be prized, something that's to be 159 00:11:01,350 --> 00:11:05,110 possessed, something that's to be counted, precious. 160 00:11:05,110 --> 00:11:08,110 Something that's to be engraved in the heart of mind. 161 00:11:08,310 --> 00:11:11,990 Here's a Psalm worthy of note, A Psalm that's designed to 162 00:11:12,430 --> 00:11:15,830 instruct and a Psalm that's designed to to teach. 163 00:11:16,590 --> 00:11:20,670 Remember what the Apostle Paul? Told us there and Romans chapter 164 00:11:20,670 --> 00:11:24,700 15 and in the verse 4. Now whatsoever things are 165 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,500 written the four time are written for our learning that we 166 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:31,940 through patience and comfort of the scriptures might of hope and 167 00:11:31,940 --> 00:11:34,940 in First Corinthians chapter 10, verse 11 he said Now all. 168 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:37,860 These things happened. Unto them for examples, and they 169 00:11:37,860 --> 00:11:40,260 are written for our admonition, upon whom the end of. 170 00:11:40,260 --> 00:11:43,820 The world are come. The word admonition means new 171 00:11:43,820 --> 00:11:47,020 austethema. It means to put into the mind 172 00:11:48,580 --> 00:11:53,570 and you see one of the features. Of the Psalms, what they were 173 00:11:53,570 --> 00:11:57,770 written to be sung. But singing is not just about 174 00:11:57,810 --> 00:12:00,810 other praise and offering praise. 175 00:12:00,890 --> 00:12:04,010 It's another purpose. And part of the purpose in 176 00:12:04,010 --> 00:12:10,010 singing is teaching. And our hemology should reflect 177 00:12:10,010 --> 00:12:14,210 and be rooted in good theology. Here's a golden truth for the 178 00:12:14,210 --> 00:12:16,170 heart and mind of the people of God. 179 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:20,160 We fill our mind with who God is and what he's like and what he 180 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,920 does for his people. He's a God who sees. 181 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,400 He's a God who helps. That's the specific purpose. 182 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,280 Notice the specific place if you look again at the title. 183 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:33,720 Two places. Are mentioned when he. 184 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:39,280 Strove with. Amram Nahar Aeen and with Amram 185 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,360 Zoba. Now we'll pause there. 186 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,850 Where are these two places? Here's the answer. 187 00:12:48,170 --> 00:12:53,170 They're in Mesopotamia, whereas. Mesopotamia, if you look at a 188 00:12:53,170 --> 00:12:54,490 map, a Bible. Map. 189 00:12:54,650 --> 00:12:59,690 It's the land of Iraq. And you see, you've got to think 190 00:12:59,690 --> 00:13:04,930 of these two places located between the Tigris River and the 191 00:13:04,930 --> 00:13:12,250 River Euphrates, because Amram Zoba, he occupied the territory 192 00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:15,090 to the western side of the River Euphrates. 193 00:13:15,890 --> 00:13:18,850 And there were ancient times. There was a battle took place. 194 00:13:19,490 --> 00:13:22,730 There was fighting there the armies of the children of Israel 195 00:13:22,770 --> 00:13:26,170 under David and one of his generals, General Joab. 196 00:13:26,410 --> 00:13:31,890 And they fought the Syrians and fought the Edomites in this 197 00:13:31,890 --> 00:13:35,410 territory. And the battle took place as far 198 00:13:35,410 --> 00:13:42,010 down as Mesopotamia and. There was a specific period, it 199 00:13:42,010 --> 00:13:44,050 says, when he. Strove with. 200 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:48,070 And then it says when. Joe AB returned. 201 00:13:48,070 --> 00:13:53,630 And Smote a Vedum in the Valley of Salt 12. 1000 Now you turn in 202 00:13:53,630 --> 00:13:55,510 your. Bible with me there to Second 203 00:13:55,510 --> 00:13:59,390 Samuel chapter 8. Let's read the Word of God, 204 00:14:00,150 --> 00:14:02,790 Second Samuel chapter 8 and verse three. 205 00:14:03,670 --> 00:14:07,950 It says Second Samuel 8 and verse 3. 206 00:14:08,030 --> 00:14:12,630 David. Smote also Haddad Ezer, the son 207 00:14:12,630 --> 00:14:13,630 of. Rehob. 208 00:14:14,210 --> 00:14:17,650 King of Zoba. As he went. 209 00:14:17,730 --> 00:14:22,570 To recover his border. At the river Euphrates now, do 210 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:25,170 you see the location I'm telling. 211 00:14:25,170 --> 00:14:30,090 You this is where. Amram Zoba is it's right down at 212 00:14:30,090 --> 00:14:35,210 the River Euphrates. And if we read also in this 213 00:14:35,210 --> 00:14:40,170 second Samuel chapter 8 we read in verse 12 of Syria. 214 00:14:41,010 --> 00:14:44,100 And of Moab. And of the children of Ammon. 215 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:48,900 And of the Philistines. And of Amalak and. 216 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:55,540 Of the spoil of Haddad Ezer son of Rehob king of Zobab, and 217 00:14:55,580 --> 00:14:58,100 David got. Him a name when he returned from 218 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:03,580 smating the Syrians in the valley of salt, being 18,000 219 00:15:03,580 --> 00:15:06,820 men, and he put garrisons in Eden. 220 00:15:08,660 --> 00:15:13,560 You see, David got him a name. And over there in. 221 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:20,320 Second Samuel chapter 10 and in the verse six we read Second 222 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,400 Samuel chapter 10 and in the verse six let's hear the word of 223 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,720 God. And when the children of Ammon 224 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,280 saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon 225 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,720 sent and hired the Syrians of. Beth Rehab. 226 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,320 And the Syrians of Zoba, 20,000 foot men. 227 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:47,170 And of King Macca. 1000 men. And of Ishtab 12. 1000 men and 228 00:15:47,170 --> 00:15:48,410 when, David. Heard of it? 229 00:15:48,650 --> 00:15:50,890 He sent. Joe AB and all the host. 230 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:57,130 Of the mighty men he seen King. David here was subduing. 231 00:15:57,130 --> 00:16:00,530 The nations. All around him, he was defeating 232 00:16:00,530 --> 00:16:05,970 the enemies as far away as the land of Mesopotamia. 233 00:16:06,170 --> 00:16:08,930 He was dealing with the Syrians, He was dealing with the 234 00:16:08,930 --> 00:16:12,100 Edomites. And the land had a period of 235 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:16,300 rest and victory and rejoicing, it says in Second Samuel 7 and 236 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:17,900 one. And it came to pass when the 237 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:22,180 king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest 238 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:24,100 roundabout from all his. Enemies. 239 00:16:25,220 --> 00:16:28,540 Joab at that. Time had Smote 12. 1000 in the 240 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:31,260 Valley of Salt, David. Smote 18,000. 241 00:16:33,460 --> 00:16:38,700 Now think of our United Kingdom if we talked. 242 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:42,120 In our history. We could go back to. 243 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,560 The days of the Protestant Reformation, 31st of October 244 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,080 1517. Martin Luther, you've got to 245 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,720 think of the monk. That's the world. 246 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,040 We could also talk this morning of the famous Battle of the 247 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:59,720 Boyne in the 1st of July. 19. 60 Where King William defeated King 248 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,400 James, William and Mary were crowned John monarchs. 249 00:17:05,140 --> 00:17:07,579 They were crowned under a Bill of Rights known as the. 250 00:17:07,579 --> 00:17:10,260 William H Settlement. And I want to point out this 251 00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:14,420 morning that's one of the most important documents in the whole 252 00:17:14,420 --> 00:17:17,660 history of the Western world. Do you know that that document 253 00:17:17,660 --> 00:17:21,500 is central to our freedom, our laws, our way of life? 254 00:17:21,780 --> 00:17:24,180 Do you know that that document became the basis for the 255 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:26,060 Constitution? Or latest states of. 256 00:17:26,060 --> 00:17:29,540 America, do you know this morning that's why King Charles 257 00:17:29,540 --> 00:17:32,700 can't arrest any of us and Putin's in jail? 258 00:17:33,570 --> 00:17:36,130 You see, the King King Charge is not above the law. 259 00:17:36,850 --> 00:17:39,050 King charge is not an absolute monarch. 260 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:42,370 I've told you this before, he's a constitutional monarch. 261 00:17:42,810 --> 00:17:45,010 Why? Because of the Williamite 262 00:17:45,010 --> 00:17:46,970 settlement. William and Mary were 263 00:17:46,970 --> 00:17:49,170 constitutional markets. Monarch. 264 00:17:49,330 --> 00:17:54,250 The king lives to serve the people, not be. 265 00:17:54,250 --> 00:17:57,690 Served by the people. And did you know that as far 266 00:17:57,690 --> 00:18:00,930 back as 16? 90 There were special Sabbath. 267 00:18:00,930 --> 00:18:03,130 Days to remember the battle of the boy. 268 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,680 To thank God. For the William H Settlement. 269 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,520 Even in the other times at John. Wesley's day, Charles having 270 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,600 Spurgeon's day. They they. 271 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,600 Marked. The William H Settlement. 272 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,240 On the 5th of November, and they thank God for the arrival of 273 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,240 William and Mary. To the shores of England because 274 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,480 that William H settlement give us the freedom to worship. 275 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,400 That's why we have freedom to worship today. 276 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,680 That that's why you didn't fear coming through the gate, that 277 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,440 you're going to be arrested, hauled off to jail, the freedom 278 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,810 of the press. The freedom of the judiciary 279 00:18:33,810 --> 00:18:37,970 from governmental interference. Let's remember our freedom's not 280 00:18:37,970 --> 00:18:41,930 free a price. Had to be paid for that freedom. 281 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:44,970 And of course that price was the. 282 00:18:44,970 --> 00:18:48,130 Shedding of blood. And while that's true in the 283 00:18:48,130 --> 00:18:52,490 battlefields of human history, if we come to Calvary, think of 284 00:18:52,850 --> 00:18:56,330 the Lord Jesus to whom the sun? Sets free as free indeed. 285 00:18:56,450 --> 00:18:58,370 On what basis does he set as free? 286 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,520 The basis is the. Shedding of us precious blood. 287 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,280 Without the shedding of. Blood. 288 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,120 There's no remission and recently in the history here in 289 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:10,080 the United Kingdom we've saw history in making because we. 290 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,360 Witnessed on our television. Screens. 291 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,200 King Charles been crowned. You know that Coronation takes. 292 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,000 US back to Bible. Times the supplications. 293 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,320 That were offered the songs that were sing, the scriptures that 294 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,720 were read, the symbolism that was used, all referred and dated 295 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,840 back. To the days of David. 296 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,520 The days of Solomon, when the people cried as he was crowing. 297 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,520 Long live the king. We can come. 298 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,200 Forward even further. Think of Days of Revival 1625 in 299 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:49,160 Northern Ireland 1850 Nine 1920s, the 19. 50s and the 1960s 300 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,280 when when God moved you. See if you read Second Samuel 301 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,800 chapter 8 verses 3 to 13 and I urge you to do that. 302 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,480 It ties us into the. Period it. 303 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,560 Ties us into the place. It ties us into the purpose of 304 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:11,800 when Psalm 60 was written. Now there's that strange. 305 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,920 Language that after the. Title. 306 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,800 If it's inspired by the Holy Ghost, and I believe it is, 307 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,440 isn't it strange language that David uttered? 308 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,050 Oh God, that was cast us off. Thou has scattered us, thou has 309 00:20:27,050 --> 00:20:29,930 been displeased. Or turn thyself to us. 310 00:20:30,370 --> 00:20:36,610 Again, you see, David is foreseeing and facing up to the 311 00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:40,210 reality of coming change. He knows it's not always going 312 00:20:40,210 --> 00:20:44,770 to be like this. He knows there's a time we'll 313 00:20:44,770 --> 00:20:48,530 come when we will face changes and challenges, when things will 314 00:20:48,530 --> 00:20:52,370 be difficult, when things will be despairing. 315 00:20:54,090 --> 00:20:57,730 Now I wonder this morning, is that true? 316 00:20:57,730 --> 00:21:01,530 Of you, you see, David realised. I not always enjoyed the 317 00:21:01,530 --> 00:21:04,130 presence. Of God I not always know the 318 00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:06,810 power of God. I know always enjoy the God's 319 00:21:06,810 --> 00:21:08,290 protection or God's. Provision. 320 00:21:08,410 --> 00:21:10,050 You see, there's a. Strange language to. 321 00:21:10,050 --> 00:21:12,490 Us. But it's very sensible. 322 00:21:13,170 --> 00:21:16,610 David is facing up to the reality of change now. 323 00:21:16,810 --> 00:21:20,650 Now think with me. How is it for Ulster today, in 324 00:21:20,650 --> 00:21:23,550 the 21st century? Where's the Times of? 325 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:27,310 Reformation Now I would go as far as saying we need a second 326 00:21:27,310 --> 00:21:31,630 reformation in Ulster. A reformation of rediscovering 327 00:21:31,630 --> 00:21:34,070 the word of God and its authority and power 328 00:21:34,470 --> 00:21:39,190 rediscovering of the gospel. Where are the days of revival? 329 00:21:39,990 --> 00:21:47,150 16251850 nine 1920s Where's people flocking again to the 330 00:21:47,150 --> 00:21:50,070 House of God in the day of God to hear the word of God? 331 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:53,920 Where's the. Recognition and the rejoicing. 332 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,440 For the William X. Settlement, as I've talked 333 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,000 about, that brought in a constitutional monarchy and gave 334 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:04,000 us our freedom and laws. Where's the fear of God now? 335 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,640 In northern. Ireland, See, see, Abraham 336 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,880 prayed. I perceive that the fear of God 337 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,240 is not in this. Place. 338 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,640 And I'm sorry, but you only have to go up, Sandy. 339 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,400 Row and. Into the Shankill. 340 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,160 Or or or going to wrath cool or up to the. 341 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,290 Branul. And you'll discover the fear of. 342 00:22:22,290 --> 00:22:24,490 God is not in this place. There's no dread. 343 00:22:24,490 --> 00:22:28,170 Of God there's No Fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. 344 00:22:28,570 --> 00:22:31,010 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, knowledge 345 00:22:31,010 --> 00:22:32,890 of the holy. Is understanding. 346 00:22:33,850 --> 00:22:35,850 Where's the? Sense of loyalty and. 347 00:22:35,850 --> 00:22:43,130 Commitment to the banner of the cross, to the personal work of 348 00:22:43,130 --> 00:22:48,290 the Lord Jesus is the C word, not a missing word in the 349 00:22:48,290 --> 00:22:51,710 vocabulary of many. Where's Where's the spiritual 350 00:22:51,710 --> 00:22:55,070 love for the Lord? As I said last week in a sermon, 351 00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:58,870 the the the the love of God is like the little girl who says 352 00:22:58,870 --> 00:23:01,510 that she loves broccoli but not enough to eat it. 353 00:23:02,070 --> 00:23:05,710 And many pay lip service to God and the things of God. 354 00:23:07,590 --> 00:23:12,110 Where's the passion? For the souls of man is he David 355 00:23:12,110 --> 00:23:16,630 foresaw a day of change. A day when they would be 356 00:23:16,630 --> 00:23:19,700 scattered. A day when God would cast them. 357 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:25,540 Off people not united, people divided. 358 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:31,500 He even said in some 60 verse 3 Thou has showed thy people hard 359 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:35,580 things that was made us to drink the wane of astonishment. 360 00:23:36,420 --> 00:23:37,700 It is not that the. Story of the. 361 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:41,180 True Church and earth, Days of the right hand of God. 362 00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:42,750 Days. And it seems that the hand of 363 00:23:42,750 --> 00:23:45,990 the Lord is against us. Days of rejoicing, but now days 364 00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:47,550 of. Ridicule and rejection. 365 00:23:47,830 --> 00:23:51,950 See, we can look back to the past, even our recent past. 366 00:23:52,710 --> 00:23:56,790 1951, when the free pristine church started, the 60s and the 367 00:23:56,790 --> 00:23:58,750 70s. God seemed to be at work and 368 00:23:58,750 --> 00:24:00,830 Ulster New churches were being formed. 369 00:24:00,990 --> 00:24:02,590 Multishoot of souls have been saved. 370 00:24:02,630 --> 00:24:04,630 People were flocking to the House of God. 371 00:24:04,910 --> 00:24:07,350 They they, they, they were practical rafters. 372 00:24:07,630 --> 00:24:10,550 I remember Tommy Gilmer telling the story of what happened in 373 00:24:10,550 --> 00:24:14,440 Porta Vogue. How that the late Doctor Paisley 374 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,960 preached and souls received, and then he went to the manse for 375 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,560 tea and there was other souls came and knocked in the door, 376 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,120 and then when he was about to leave there was a knock at the 377 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,320 door again. And said there was. 378 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,480 Hundreds of people at the Port of Oakley car park that weren't 379 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,560 meant to have a service that they but wanted to have a 380 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,000 service and something over that weekend 38 souls. 381 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,390 Came to faith in Christ. And we could add Ballymena and 382 00:24:34,550 --> 00:24:37,230 what happened down there? We could add Tandrugee and what 383 00:24:37,230 --> 00:24:39,150 happened there. We could go to the warm country 384 00:24:39,230 --> 00:24:41,990 and what happened down there. But times are. 385 00:24:41,990 --> 00:24:46,510 Not like at night. There's a day of coldness. 386 00:24:48,350 --> 00:24:49,790 The day of. Dearth has come. 387 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:54,150 We're at a low point. Why? 388 00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:58,630 Because there's No Fear of God. There's no thought of God or 389 00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:02,140 regard of God. And we only have to look into 390 00:25:02,140 --> 00:25:08,220 our own so-called nominal Protestant loyalist communities. 391 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,140 There's a love for self. There's a love for money and 392 00:25:12,140 --> 00:25:14,220 possessions. There's a love for booze and 393 00:25:14,220 --> 00:25:17,660 drug addiction. There's a real lack of God. 394 00:25:19,020 --> 00:25:22,340 There's a rejection of God. There's been a forsaking of God. 395 00:25:22,460 --> 00:25:24,500 There's been a forgetting of God. 396 00:25:26,020 --> 00:25:27,780 And that's why you've got someone when. 397 00:25:28,550 --> 00:25:32,310 GB News was on the television as a live coverage at the 12th, 398 00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:37,670 someone actually swearing on television demarling Foster 399 00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:41,590 having to apologize. That that's why you've got 400 00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:43,470 people. Burning averages of living 401 00:25:43,470 --> 00:25:46,710 people in bonfires. And it's wrong and it's sinful. 402 00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:50,150 Why? Because you've No Fear of God, 403 00:25:50,230 --> 00:25:52,390 that's why you've got these people running about drunk. 404 00:25:52,950 --> 00:25:57,030 Because there's No Fear of God. There's a lack of God's 405 00:25:57,030 --> 00:25:59,990 presence. Power, protection, provision, 406 00:26:00,550 --> 00:26:04,030 and we need the Lord. And the Sam was recognised. 407 00:26:04,670 --> 00:26:08,870 Yes, I'm bachelin and I'm cold and I I need to turn to the 408 00:26:08,870 --> 00:26:11,630 Lord, but I need the Lord to turn himself to me. 409 00:26:12,670 --> 00:26:18,430 And that's what he's praying. He's foreseeing the reality of 410 00:26:18,430 --> 00:26:22,030 common change very quickly. He's focusing on the. 411 00:26:22,030 --> 00:26:23,590 Reason for this coming change look. 412 00:26:23,590 --> 00:26:26,490 At look at Sam 60 verse one. It says thou hast been 413 00:26:26,490 --> 00:26:28,610 displeased. See that we're displeased. 414 00:26:28,930 --> 00:26:31,370 It's used 24 references in the Bible. 415 00:26:31,890 --> 00:26:34,290 What displeases God. Let me just suggest very 416 00:26:34,290 --> 00:26:36,850 quickly. The sin of murmuring displeases 417 00:26:36,850 --> 00:26:39,330 God. And when the people complained, 418 00:26:39,330 --> 00:26:43,010 it displeased the Lord, and the Lord heard it, and his anger was 419 00:26:43,010 --> 00:26:46,330 kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and 420 00:26:46,330 --> 00:26:49,450 consumed them. That we're in the uttermost part 421 00:26:49,450 --> 00:26:50,650 of the camp. You've got to think of the 422 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:52,530 children of Israel coming out of Egypt. 423 00:26:54,370 --> 00:26:57,050 You'd think they'd rejoice. They'd been redeemed by the 424 00:26:57,050 --> 00:27:00,130 Precious Blood. Moses was their leader as a man 425 00:27:00,130 --> 00:27:02,330 of God. They come out into. 426 00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:04,370 The wilderness. And they complained and. 427 00:27:04,370 --> 00:27:05,650 Murmured. They had nothing. 428 00:27:05,650 --> 00:27:09,330 To complain about. Their murmuring was rooted in 429 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:11,690 their covetousness. It was rooted. 430 00:27:11,690 --> 00:27:13,490 In their loss for what they had in Egypt. 431 00:27:13,490 --> 00:27:14,890 It was. It was rooted in their 432 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:18,170 ingratitude. And remember in First 433 00:27:18,170 --> 00:27:22,850 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 10 that says neither murmur ye. 434 00:27:23,940 --> 00:27:26,140 This was Paul's advice to the Corinthians as. 435 00:27:26,140 --> 00:27:27,940 Some of them also. Murmured and were. 436 00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:31,020 Destroyed of the Destroyer. And all these things happened 437 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:32,860 unto them for examples, and they're written for our 438 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:37,340 admonition, upon whom the ends of the world had come, the sin 439 00:27:37,340 --> 00:27:41,740 of murmuring against God, questioning his wisdom, his 440 00:27:41,740 --> 00:27:46,460 love, his power, his goodness, his doings, forgetting that God 441 00:27:46,460 --> 00:27:49,670 is absolutely sovereign. Forgetting that God is Creator 442 00:27:49,670 --> 00:27:53,830 and Maker, Forgetting that God is in charge, forgetting that 443 00:27:53,830 --> 00:27:56,110 we're dependent and accountable to Him. 444 00:27:57,350 --> 00:28:00,750 This is what Daniel 435 says. And all the inhabitants of the 445 00:28:00,750 --> 00:28:03,590 earth are reputed as nothing. And He doth according to his 446 00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:05,990 will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the 447 00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:09,910 earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what dost 448 00:28:10,270 --> 00:28:16,140 thy the sin of memory. He's focusing on the reason for 449 00:28:16,140 --> 00:28:18,420 this coming change. The sin of murmuring has come 450 00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:20,500 in. What about the sin of? 451 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:29,060 Immorality over there and Samuel and Second Samuel in in Chapter 452 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:32,380 11. We read this in the verse 27, 453 00:28:33,020 --> 00:28:35,660 Second Samuel Chapter 11, verse 27. 454 00:28:37,260 --> 00:28:41,900 Let's hear the word of God once again and when the morning was 455 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:44,720 passed. David sent and fetched her to 456 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,760 his house, and she became his wife and bare a son. 457 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,400 But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 458 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,560 Do you see that? Here's the sin of immorality. 459 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,160 David and Barceba. Breaking the Law of God. 460 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,280 Adultery, Cover Up and lies, Murder, drunkenness. 461 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,640 A lot of gross sins are violating and breaking God's 462 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,090 law. Could add the little sins as 463 00:29:12,090 --> 00:29:13,970 well, whatever. David did it. 464 00:29:14,810 --> 00:29:18,930 Displeased the Lord. And you'd think of the 465 00:29:18,930 --> 00:29:21,610 immorality in Northern Ireland at this moment in time. 466 00:29:22,890 --> 00:29:31,050 Gross sins, little sins. Remember whenever Aiken came to 467 00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:34,250 Jericho, the very first study that the children of Israel were 468 00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:37,250 to conquer all the soldiers were told. 469 00:29:37,330 --> 00:29:40,170 All that's in here belongs to the Lord. 470 00:29:43,170 --> 00:29:45,210 Don't take anything. What did he take? 471 00:29:45,290 --> 00:29:48,210 The Babylonious garment. 200 seconds of silver, a wedge of 472 00:29:48,210 --> 00:29:50,850 gold. And they were defeated when they 473 00:29:50,850 --> 00:29:53,010 come to the second city at a I. Why? 474 00:29:53,130 --> 00:29:55,850 Because there was a hiding of sin and the Lord saw it. 475 00:29:56,090 --> 00:30:00,450 And the Lord sees the sin that goes on in Northern Ireland at 476 00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:02,370 this minute. I want to tell you something 477 00:30:02,370 --> 00:30:04,490 else. He's just pleased because of the 478 00:30:04,490 --> 00:30:08,650 sin of pride over there and First chronicles. 479 00:30:09,090 --> 00:30:15,570 Chapter 21 and verse seven. We read these words and God was 480 00:30:15,570 --> 00:30:18,850 displeased with this thing wherever he smote Israel. 481 00:30:19,010 --> 00:30:22,890 What was this thing? It was David's sin of pride and 482 00:30:22,890 --> 00:30:26,810 numbering the people. There was a failure at that time 483 00:30:26,810 --> 00:30:28,290 to follow what God had commanded. 484 00:30:28,730 --> 00:30:31,330 The devil was at the back of it. Look at first Chronicles, 485 00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,170 chapter 21, verse one. It mentions the devil. 486 00:30:34,450 --> 00:30:36,730 It was the devil that motivated and moved David. 487 00:30:38,460 --> 00:30:40,420 Was the seat of pride in his heart. 488 00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:43,860 How many soldiers do we have in the army go and number them Joe 489 00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:45,780 from down to perceive a number them all. 490 00:30:46,180 --> 00:30:49,220 Joe knew it was wrong. Joe didn't even count them all. 491 00:30:49,580 --> 00:30:51,420 He left out leave. I left out Benjamin. 492 00:30:51,420 --> 00:30:52,940 You know when he got the leave And Benjamin? 493 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:55,540 They told him clear off. They're not going to number us 494 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:56,820 now. We want none to do with it. 495 00:30:56,980 --> 00:30:59,020 Why? Because there's a trespass here. 496 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:03,100 What about the half shackle of redemption for every soldier in 497 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:04,750 the land? If you're going to count them 498 00:31:04,830 --> 00:31:08,110 all, clack the half shackle of redemption and they refused to 499 00:31:08,110 --> 00:31:10,150 do it. You see, the Lord was 500 00:31:10,150 --> 00:31:13,230 displeased. Here's the perception. 501 00:31:14,910 --> 00:31:17,510 David had a. Failure to deal with the sin of 502 00:31:17,510 --> 00:31:21,750 parade. And is there not a spiritual 503 00:31:22,870 --> 00:31:28,190 perception today that there's many things in Ulster displeased 504 00:31:28,190 --> 00:31:30,950 the Lord? Let me tell you one other thing. 505 00:31:30,950 --> 00:31:36,050 Look at Mark. March, chapter 10, verse 14. 506 00:31:36,050 --> 00:31:37,770 It says. But when Jesus saw it, he was 507 00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:40,490 much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children 508 00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:43,130 to come unto me, and forbid them not for of such as the Kingdom 509 00:31:43,130 --> 00:31:47,170 of God. Much displeased because the 510 00:31:47,450 --> 00:31:50,330 disciples didn't want the little children to be brought to the 511 00:31:50,330 --> 00:31:54,690 Lord Jesus, he said, Suffer the little children to come unto me 512 00:31:54,690 --> 00:31:58,690 for such as the Kingdom of God. Here's their treatment of the 513 00:31:58,690 --> 00:32:02,250 children. We don't want them to be near 514 00:32:02,250 --> 00:32:05,730 Christ. And how many parents don't want 515 00:32:05,730 --> 00:32:08,610 their children to come to Sunday school or our children's 516 00:32:08,610 --> 00:32:10,690 meetings? And I want to tell you that 517 00:32:10,690 --> 00:32:15,890 children are suffering. What about the evil of abortion? 518 00:32:16,850 --> 00:32:21,090 It's the murder of the unborn. We need to be more vocal. 519 00:32:22,090 --> 00:32:27,650 What about this evil of RSE? Relationship, sexualised 520 00:32:27,650 --> 00:32:29,250 education. And I want to tell you, it's 521 00:32:29,250 --> 00:32:32,570 horrendous what the UN have proposed, and it's horrendous of 522 00:32:32,570 --> 00:32:35,850 what our Secretary of State has introduced already through an 523 00:32:35,890 --> 00:32:39,050 act of parliament into Northern Ireland and it's coming here in 524 00:32:39,050 --> 00:32:42,370 September. What about the evil of 525 00:32:42,370 --> 00:32:48,850 drunkenness and drug abuse? What about the evil of cursing? 526 00:32:50,290 --> 00:32:52,890 What about? Men being lovers of themselves, 527 00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:54,890 lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. 528 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:59,370 I love for money and possessions and possession, but not loving 529 00:32:59,370 --> 00:33:03,690 God, living and rejection of him, living without him, not 530 00:33:03,690 --> 00:33:05,370 knowing him, not worshipping him. 531 00:33:05,530 --> 00:33:09,090 I want to tell you there's a call for repentance, there's a 532 00:33:09,090 --> 00:33:12,290 call to put sin away, and I'm calling on the loyalist people. 533 00:33:13,050 --> 00:33:16,330 I'm calling on the nominal Protestants in these areas to 534 00:33:16,330 --> 00:33:18,970 repent of their sin and get right with God. 535 00:33:19,270 --> 00:33:22,110 I'm calling on them to turn to the House of God on the day of 536 00:33:22,110 --> 00:33:24,670 God. I'm calling on the preachers in 537 00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:28,230 the pulpit to stop preaching woke nonsense and start 538 00:33:28,390 --> 00:33:31,950 preaching the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son 539 00:33:31,950 --> 00:33:37,590 of. God, we need to get back to the 540 00:33:37,590 --> 00:33:39,630 Bible. We need to get back. 541 00:33:39,950 --> 00:33:42,470 To the worship and the way and the will of God. 542 00:33:42,630 --> 00:33:44,630 For us as creatures. In his presence. 543 00:33:45,150 --> 00:33:48,190 Because what's the first thing that man should learn? 544 00:33:48,570 --> 00:33:52,570 Man's chief end as to what is to glorify God and enjoy him 545 00:33:52,570 --> 00:33:56,850 forever. Glorify God and enjoy him 546 00:33:56,850 --> 00:33:58,650 forever. That is the chief. 547 00:33:58,650 --> 00:34:01,130 End of man. And that's a message that we 548 00:34:01,130 --> 00:34:05,530 need to fundamentally get across to our people at this time. 549 00:34:08,290 --> 00:34:12,889 Here's the reason David faced up. 550 00:34:12,889 --> 00:34:15,929 To the reason for the coming change, God is displaced. 551 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,520 And why are things are? The way they are in Northern 552 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,560 Ireland, could it not be that God is displeased? 553 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,960 The sin of murmuring, the sin of immorality, the sin of pride, 554 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,120 the sin of the. Treatment of the children. 555 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,719 One final thing, the following the remedy for coming change. 556 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,840 What did David do? He prayed. 557 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,530 It's a prayer. Includes praise to God, 558 00:34:46,570 --> 00:34:49,770 remission of sin, asking for things yielding one's heart, 559 00:34:50,330 --> 00:34:54,409 being earnest and effectual, receiving in the ground of 560 00:34:54,409 --> 00:34:56,889 redemption. You see, if you notice this 561 00:34:56,889 --> 00:35:00,810 word, turn thyself to us again. Think of the word. 562 00:35:00,810 --> 00:35:07,410 Again, God has done it in the past and we Northern Ireland God 563 00:35:07,410 --> 00:35:14,250 sent 3 revivals 162518591920 and our prayer should be. 564 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:21,200 Lord, visit us again and. Not not just revive us, but turn 565 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,560 thyself to us, come into the midst of us, and I bring about 566 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,560 the fear of thee. Because we've only one to help, 567 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,520 and that's the Lord I want to. Tell you our help. 568 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,160 Was not in man or in schemes our help? 569 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,240 Was not in churches. It's not in politics. 570 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:40,880 It's not in history. It's not in. 571 00:35:41,930 --> 00:35:44,250 Education. Do I believe in education? 572 00:35:44,250 --> 00:35:45,730 Or people ought to. Be educated. 573 00:35:45,970 --> 00:35:47,850 It's certainly. Not in archaeology, I. 574 00:35:49,130 --> 00:35:51,290 Have to get back to God. Start with him. 575 00:35:53,090 --> 00:35:55,250 Because he's the only one who can help us. 576 00:35:56,810 --> 00:35:58,090 If you want help and. Trouble. 577 00:35:59,890 --> 00:36:01,010 Then you've got to go to the Lord. 578 00:36:01,090 --> 00:36:03,490 Isn't this what he prayed in? Psalm 60 verse 11? 579 00:36:03,570 --> 00:36:06,170 Give us help from trouble. Do you pray that prayer? 580 00:36:06,610 --> 00:36:10,010 Give us help from trouble. For vien is the help of mom. 581 00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:15,700 The word vien means anti. And God will help us from 582 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:18,860 trouble, not only in it, but from trouble. 583 00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:22,660 Because the Samus was done to say through God we shall do 584 00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:24,300 violently. For he it is that she'll tread 585 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,820 down our enemies. And the biggest enemy we have is 586 00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:31,060 the enemy of sin. We've got to face up to that 587 00:36:31,060 --> 00:36:35,060 enemy first. Let's recognize that among our 588 00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:40,140 people today there's the sin of murmuring pride. 589 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,960 The morality and sin of badly treating the children. 590 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,720 Let's start there. If God is displeased with these 591 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:54,280 sins. Then let's repent of them, and 592 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:59,560 let's cry unto him. Give us help from trouble. 593 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,280 Things need to change. Things need to. 594 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,960 Improve. The late I didn't know used to 595 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,560 say to me. Where can I go but to the Lord? 596 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,000 And where can Ulster go? Ulster. 597 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,240 Can only go to the Lord and it's up there. 598 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,600 Has people, has random. People those those faithful? 599 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:27,360 Ones whom God has has spoken to and dealt with to cry unto him. 600 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,600 End prayer. Who turn thyself to us again. 601 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,200 And if you want to pray a prayer to help Northern Ireland, then 602 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,600 you start with that prayer this morning.